Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.

(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)

(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)

From 25th - 31st May 2008

NOTE: Amendment to KB articles: Microsoft are not not amending the date of a KB article if the change made is marked as a version point change (so from 2.2 to 2.3 for instance).
This ought to mean that the amendment made is cosmetic rather than important as important text changes ought to result in a major version change (such as from 2.2 to 3.0).
Because of this change and to avoid unnecessary effort I will in future not amend the listings in the WSS FAQ sites if only a minor version change has taken place.
I will continue to amend both the date and version numbers of major version changes and of course will continue to add all relevant new KB articles that my RSS feeds and other sources give me.

I.1 2007 KB Articles    (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)

New

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952172/en-us

Event ID 2436 is logged in the Application log when you search for a URL in SharePoint Server 2007

30th May 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953127/en-us

How to integrate SharePoint Server 2007 or Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services by using the Reporting Services Add-in

30th May 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951654/en-us

Duplicate workflows are displayed after you create a SharePoint Server 2007 site from a site template

29th May 2008

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952167/en-us

Folders may have to be excluded from antivirus scanning when you use a file-level antivirus program in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 4.0)

28th May 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=950947

Support information for using Forefront Security for SharePoint on a Windows Server 2008-based computer or on a Windows Vista-based computer (ver 2.0)

22nd May 2008

I.b Forefront KB Articles

New

None

Modified

None

I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles

New or Modified

None

II. Articles - 2007 Products  (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)

New

A. Office 2007 Server Products

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d41140ab-0ea3-47c7-be56-f42424166608&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint IT Pro and Developer Training Resources Sheet

30th May 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5474a014-0298-4c45-a8f4-f3e38abfc424&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint Products and Technologies Document: Developing Custom Applications with SharePoint Server 2007 (ver May08)

30th May 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3bfa11be-815a-414d-b69f-c2add07d8733&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint: A Platform for Enterprise Mashups

30th May 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6231f77e-a8d5-43b2-a8d8-a9bb60304505&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint Server 2007 Internal Buzz Kit

30th May 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=25f9cc59-4ea3-4381-8b37-9430f664eac6&displaylang=en&tm

PPTs and Demos for Introductory SharePoint Developer Modules (an msi file to install these)

29th May 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b47a2590-3f3c-42e8-b9f1-334d65a88c4a&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint Deployment Planning Services Overview Brochure

27th May 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2BE66504-21FB-4130-844C-0F89DA54515F&displaylang=en

Enterprise Search Indexing Connector 2008 for EMC Documentum (works with "Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Search Server 2008, or Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express installed and configured")

23rd May 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=150004F9-FA15-41C6-902B-202AD2FC16D2&displaylang=en

Enterprise Search Indexing Connector 2008 for IBM FileNet (works with "Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Search Server 2008, or Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express installed and configured")

23rd May 2008

B. Other Office 2007 products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5c4e9dea-ab34-40f6-8c73-bd94051331b4&displaylang=en&tm

Windows Small Business Server 2008 (RC0 = Release Candidate 0)

(includes  WSS 3.0 so included here despite being only a release candidate)

28th May 2008

C. Other New 2006/2007/2008 Products  (selected few only since 1.1.2007)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=82e632a7-faf9-41e0-8ec1-a2662aae9dfb&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Software Development Kit (ver 4.0.5)

30th May 2008 (relevant to SP and an SDK)

Modified

None

III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b885dce8-c93f-48aa-b798-4422febcc200&displaylang=en&tm

Hands on Labs for Developing Applications on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

30th May 2008

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032378833&Culture=en-US

MSDN Webcast: Introduction to SharePoint Products and Technologies for .NET Developers: Using Event Handlers (Level 200) (Andrew Connell, Independent Consultant)

27th May 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=dd1fac2c-2d6b-449c-8d28-2e28ee96b6e1&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Demo: Boost teamwork with a wiki

27th May 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b300ccfd-5fb1-4e77-a6c4-2639248642b0&displaylang=en&tm

Outlook 2007 Demo: Work with SharePoint calendars

27th May 2008

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032378831&Culture=en-US

MSDN Webcast: Introduction to SharePoint for .NET Developers: Silverlight and SharePoint Server (Level 200) (Andrew Connell, Independent Consultant)

27th May 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/winme/0804/32391/ConnectorTraining_EMCDocumentum/index.html

Installing and Configuring Enterprise Search Indexing Connector 2008 for EMC Documentum (Video) (requires Siverlight)

25th May 2008 (date added)

http://www.microsoft.com/winme/0804/32391/ConnectorTraining_IBMFilenet/index.html

Installing and Configuring Enterprise Search Indexing Connector 2008 for IBM FileNet (video) (requires Siverlight)

25th May 2008 (date added)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032378829&CountryCode=US

MSDN Webcast: Introduction to SharePoint for .NET Developers: Data Lists (Level 200) (Robert L. Bogue, Thor Projects LLC)

21st May 2008

IV WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1385

VI.105 blueKiwi SharePoint connector (commercial - blueKiwi)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1382

X.123 SharePoint autocomplete lookup field with AJAX (free - Stephane Eyskens, Codeplex)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1383

X.124 SharePoint Custom Field - Variation labels (free - Codeplex, Gael Duhamel)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1384

X.125 Application Pool Manager (free - Spencer Harbar)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1386

X.126 SharePoint List columns manager (free - Codeplex, StephaneEyskens)

Modified

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1363

V.113 Professional Workflow Design Patterns for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Wrox - John Holliday)

(new and much later date of issue)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1379

V.119 Inside SharePoint Administration (Charles River - Steve Caravajal, Shane Young, Todd O. Klindt)

(Has suddenly acquired two new authors who actually do know a lot about SP *Administration*!)

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V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New or Modified

None

VI WSSv2 FAQ

New or Modified

None

VII. MS Articles

New

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3c6c7a37-82cb-46c4-a300-902d184c9d96&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (2003) Management Pack for OpsMgr 2007 (ver 6.0.6278.0)

27th May 2008

This is what I wrote on the twelve of May

*********************

"A new book on SharePoint administration has just made it to Amazon (which means it will be out in the fall/autumn).

You can with that massive introduction perhaps guess that it was written by someone from Microsoft.

Here's the blurb.

"Steve Caravajal is a principal architect with the Microsoft Corporation. He has been architecting, deploying and customizing SharePoint solutions for over 7 years."

Ah, yes, but has he actually been administering them ?

It would seem not.

Wouldn't you think that they could find a Microsoft guy (from internal Microsoft computing perhaps) with Administration experience if they really insist on having someone from Microsoft.

I'd have picked Todd Klindt (MVP, not Microsoft) myself.

Other info on that upcoming book here:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1584506016/heme0f "

*****************

The full quote on Steve Caravajal that I referred to above is still there

"Steve Caravajal is a principal architect with the Microsoft Corporation. He has been architecting, deploying and customizing SharePoint solutions for over 7 years. Steve has 25+ years experience in technology and product development, consulting and training. He holds a B.S. degree in chemistry and mathematics and a doctoral degree in chemistry and computer science. Steve is a developer at heart, having written and managed the development of numerous enterprise software applications in C++, Java and .NET. He currently lives in Cincinnati, OH, with his wife Rosemary."

Note the "developer at heart" and remember this is an Admin book !!!

But the main thing of interest considering what I wrote above is that two more authors have been added to that Amazon page (and to the book). Both are SharePoint MVPs; both are very good at SharePoint Administration AND one of them is Todd Klindt !!!

Now my main thrust in that 12th May 2008 blog was that I would hardly rush out and buy a book if it were written by someone from Microsoft and the Microsoft guy (Steve Caravajal) is still presumably the lead writer for this one, but I still find it perhaps more than a coincidence that I blogged on him being the wrong guy for this book and just over two weeks later it turns out he no longer is the sole author.

Wouldn't it be interesting if we actually knew just when those guys were added.

This blog started off with being a short report on OneNote 2007 synchronizing with WSS 3.0 and why couldn't we have a List in one WSS 3.0 site synchronizing with an identical List in a different WSS 3.0 site in a different server.

Which (the latter) of course is impossible.

But thinking about that got me thinking (yes, it happens occasionally) and I realized that a solution to my particular WSS 3.0 synchronization problem had been staring me in the face for a long time.

But I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's start at the beginning.

I now have three different Windows PCs all of which are running OneNote 2007 and all of which have loaded the same two notebooks that were created as shared OneNote notebooks and stored in WSS 3.0.

The WSS 3.0 containing these notebooks is in a VM on my MacBook.

So now when using any of those three PCs (even the work one), if I ever see anything I want to keep, I just take a quick Copy-C and paste it into that PC's OneNote 2007 copy of one of those 2 notebooks and rely on the fact that whenever I have the MacBook and that PC in the same place I can synchronize the two.

This of course - as it's a two-way sync - will also get amendments/additions made in PC1 into PC2 and PC3 (in time).

That worked so nicely I thought wouldn't it be nice if I could synchronize two copies of WSS 3.0 in the same way. Then I could have my personal WSS 3.0 system (with those OneNote 2007 notebooks but also other things) stored in different machines without being forced to do this on a semi-regular basis via Save Site/List as Template and/or Backup/Restore methods.

A dream of course, but while thinking about that I realised that there was a solution of sorts for my problems in getting my non-OneNote data into that WSS 3.0 site when the MacBook wasn't available.

What's more I already had that solution both available to me; working (on one machine) and I also had several licenses. It was just that I'd always used it with my public web sites (because they were there) and they were always available so there never was any point in using an off-line product to update them.

Yes, I'm talking about Colligo Contributor.

Once I realized that it was simple to work out how to set up a similar thing to the OneNote solution. I would need to install Colligo Contributor on those same three Windows-based PCs at a time when the MacBook and it's WSS 3.0 VM were available. I'd then be able to connect each in turn (maybe days apart) to the VM and download the contents of the same Lists in every case.

Now whenever I wanted to add something non-OneNote to the WSS 3.0 site and I didn't have the MacBook around (or open in the wrong VM) I could just add that something to the Colligo Contributor copy and next time the MacBook and the VM were around/open I could do a sync.

I only came up with this earlier today when I was washing the dishes (!) and thinking about this blog and the whole synchronization issue, but I've no doubt that it'll work and work well. (I just need to check that the program will cope with being in three different PCs and still synchronize - I know it works from one perfectly.

It's just really annoying to realize I could have solved this problem a long time ago if I'd just had the MacBook on-line when I installed that test copy of Colligo Contributor.

I was reading through Ed Bott's long and interesting tale of woe about Vista Business on a Vaio portable (and how the Sony people made a complete hash of it) and reached page 3 (http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=429&page=3) where he describes getting a better installed version of Visio in a more recent model but where he still had a lot of unnecessary pre-installed software to get rid of.

It just reminded me that one of the benefits with not buying a "home" model for my wife was just that - that the model I did get came with a straight installation of XPPro and the few additional HP bits of software installed along with that all seem to have the aim of making getting support for the machine easier.

There's no pre-installed garbage at all - unless you include WinDVD which I'm rather happy to have as usually DVDs will run better in such a program (I usually use PowerDVD) than in either Windows Media Viewer or QuickTime.

So thanks to the neighbour for pointing out the awful build quality of her Fujitsu-Siemens "home" computer because otherwise I would probably not have started looking around for an alternative.

Most of the solutions to questions that are put about SharePoint v3 and allied products can be found in documentation somewhere.

The problem is where is that somewhere is.

Microsoft don't make things easy by having seemingly competing groups providing information so you never know for instance whether the information you are looking for is in a Knowledge Base article; in TechNet or in MSDN.

Whereas the Knowledge Base articles mostly (I shudder when I remember those KB Articles that tell you about web casts especially when they are updated several months after the event has taken place, which clearly shows that some people don't actually read what they are updating) come after the Microsoft Customer Support Services people have had many reports of problems with X or just simply many questions about Y and so tend to be about solving problems or answering common questions, the split between what's in TechNet and MSDN never seems to be clear.

Sometimes in fact I wonder if they know themselves. The only clear line I have been able to draw is that MSDN information is in the form of papers (some as Word documents; some as web pages) which can therefore include screen prints and other images and TechNet is in the form of words only.

The other difference is that TechNet often seems to subscribe to the Russian doll syndrome so that you click on something and it says the answer to that is in the following two pages; so you click on one of those links and it says the answer to that is in the following three pages; and you click on one of those and sometimes the answer is one line of text! This, guys, is taking re-use too far!

OK. Back to the reason for this particular blog.

One of the common questions for Search Server 2008 Express installed on top of WSS 3.0 is "why can I search my own WSS 3.0 sites and get results but when I try to search WSS 3.0 sites on another server, I get nothing?".

So when I, while trying (and failing) to find a "Newly published content for Search Server 2008" page, came across the standard TechNet Search Server 2008 starter page here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb871550.aspx I had a look to see if I could find anything on this issue.

It wasn't easy. There's no link there in the left-hand-column with the words "Look here for searching non-local WSS 3.0 sites" in bright red and flashing, but finally I found one (at the *third* level below that top page - not much for a Russian doll perhaps but enough for me) that said the following.

"identify the authentication method that is used by the server that hosts the content that you are crawling. By default, Search Server 2008 uses NTLM authentication"

which is something that a reply in a Search server 2008 forum said without though saying whether he was talking about the server on which Search Server 2008 is installed or the (other) server that you are trying to search.

Now, therefore it's clear that if you are (as you probably are) using default values on the WSS 3.0 / Search Server 2008 Express server you will need to make sure that the WSS 3.0 server you are trying to search is set to use NTLM authentication.

The other thing that seems to be necessary (I have no idea - I do know it's linked to from the page that said you need NTLM authentication) is to change the default content access account on the WSS 3.0 / Search Server 2008 Express server which was on a page on the *fourth level*

"Change the default content access account

"

Hopefully this still works when WSS 3.0 is not in a domain otherwise there's yet another reason for searching other servers not to work.

But for now I'm blogging this to make sure the necessity for NTLM authentication is out there. The content access account stuff is something to be tried if that doesn't work.

I suspect I'll find new bits of information on this throughout that entire TechNet section. I'm certainly going to look.

But, wouldn't it be great if they could combine with the MSDN guys and write a *single* paper (with screen shots) on how to set-up Search Server 2008 Express so that it can search non-local WSS 3.0 sites instead of making us search throughout all those short bits and make us piece together (probably wrongly) the full story.

One of the ways I keep in touch with the latest books (to add them to my Books page) is to search Amazon.com / Books with "SharePoint" and then specify "By Publication Date"

This is good way to quickly become aware of books that aren't published yet and also to see which books have been delayed.

What rarely happens is that the date of a book moves up. I submitted mine before the original deadline for submission and a few weeks later this was reflected in the Availability date that Amazon US was quoting (up from November 7th to October 20th).

Another book that I see today has been moved up (easy to see because the original date was later than that of my book) was one of the two Workflow books that are due out in the Fall.

The thing though that struck me was that the new date of that book (Professional SharePoint Workflow Programming (Wiley - Shahram Khosravi)) is now identical to that of the other book (Professional Workflow Design Patterns for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Wrox - John Holliday)) due on October the 6th.

Coincidence ? Somehow I doubt it!

Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.

(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)

(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)

From 18th - 24th May 2008

NOTE: Amendment to KB articles: Microsoft are not not amending the date of a KB article if the change made is marked as a version point change (so from 2.2 to 2.3 for instance).
This ought to mean that the amendment made is cosmetic rather than important as important text changes ought to result in a major version change (such as from 2.2 to 3.0).
Because of this change and to avoid unnecessary effort I will in future not amend the listings in the WSS FAQ sites if only a minor version change has taken place.
I will continue to amend both the date and version numbers of major version changes and of course will continue to add all relevant new KB articles that my RSS feeds and other sources give me.

I.1 2007 KB Articles    (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)

New

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;952292

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: May 12, 2008

19th May 2008

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952167/en-us

Folders may have to be excluded from antivirus scanning when you use a file-level antivirus program in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 2.0)

19th May 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;942390

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 issues that are fixed by the 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 1 (ver 4.1)

4th April 2008

I.b Forefront KB Articles

New

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950547/en-us

How to manually update the antivirus scan engines in Microsoft Forefront server security products and how to redistribute antivirus engine updates from a computer that does not have Forefront server security installed (ver 1.1)

5th May 2008

Modified

None

I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles

New or Modified

None

II. Articles - 2007 Products  (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)

New

A. Office 2007 Server Products

http://sharepointsolutions.blogspot.com/2008/05/powershell-for-flexible-iterative.html

PowerShell for Flexible Iterative SharePoint-based Development (Blog - Tony Bierman, SharePoint Solutions)

20th May 2008

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc510330.aspx

Decentralizing Site Administration (TechNet Mag June 2008, Pav Cherny)

19th May 2008 (date added)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc287790.aspx

Plan for software boundaries (Windows SharePoint Services)

18th May 2008 (date added)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262787.aspx

Plan for software boundaries (Office SharePoint Server)

18th May 2008 (date added)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc287757.aspx

Plan for backup and recovery (Windows SharePoint Services)

18th May 2008 (date added)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288019.aspx

Administering backup and recovery for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 technology

18th May 2008 (date added)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262287.aspx

Governance features in Office SharePoint Server 2007

18th May 2008 (date added)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263356.aspx

What is governance?

18th May 2008 (date added)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262883.aspx

Establishing and governing a SharePoint service

18th May 2008 (date added)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262900.aspx

Implementing and governing information architecture

18th May 2008 (date added)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc512725.aspx

Move all databases (Office SharePoint Server)

18th May 2008 (date added)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc512096.aspx

Back up and restore single sign-on

18th May 2008 (date added)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc512095.aspx

Back up and restore Shared Services Providers

18th May 2008 (date added)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262412.aspx

Administering backup and recovery for Office SharePoint Server 2007

18th May 2008 (date added)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261687.aspx

Plan for backup and recovery (Office SharePoint Server)

18th May 2008 (date added)

B. Other Office 2007 products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)

None

C. Other New 2006/2007/2008 Products  (selected few only since 1.1.2007)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/products/cc149003.aspx

Visual Studio 2008 Product Comparison (ver 1.08)

18th May 2008 (date added)
 

Modified

None

III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products

**** Section for Labs ****

https://www.microsoft.com/resources/virtuallabs/step3-technet.aspx?LabId=c8a0b19b-e557-40ac-b469-48d57fadb706&BToken=reg

TechNet Labcast On-Demand: Administering Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (180 mins)

20th May 2008 (date added)

https://www.microsoft.com/resources/virtuallabs/step1-technet.aspx?LabId=046cc968-160b-4f3d-b7a5-c5225954f8ac&BToken=reg

TechNet Labcast On-Demand: Deploying Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

20th May 2008 (date added)

https://www.microsoft.com/resources/virtuallabs/step1-technet.aspx?LabId=7efc1053-cf4b-4c1d-961f-162cfef38f78&BToken=reg

TechNet Virtual Lab: What's New in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

20th May 2008 (date added)

https://www.microsoft.com/resources/virtuallabs/step1-technet.aspx?LabId=38b11cac-4525-487d-8aaf-347b684f8a8b&BToken=reg

TechNet Virtual Lab: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Records Management Deployment and Configuration

20th May 2008 (date added)

https://www.microsoft.com/resources/virtuallabs/step1-technet.aspx?LabId=bba8edd2-0a43-43c1-98f7-d89a2f1b271e&BToken=reg

TechNet Virtual Lab: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Installation and Configuration

20th May 2008 (date added)

https://www.microsoft.com/resources/virtuallabs/step1-technet.aspx?LabId=7fd2352c-12e6-4140-abd6-c3e584b5a7ae&BToken=reg

TechNet Virtual Lab: Getting Started with the Business Data Catalog in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (90 mins)

20th May 2008 (date added)

**** End of Labs section ****

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/Register.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032377109&CountryCode=US&IsRedirect=false

TechNet Webcast: Managing Exchange Server and SharePoint Protection with Forefront Server Security Management Console (Level 300) (Darryl Tenzie)

22nd May 2008

https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/Register.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032378036&CountryCode=US&IsRedirect=false

Best Practices for Managing and Securing SharePoint 2007 (Rand Morimoto, Convergent Computing)

21st May 2008

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/Register.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032374287&CountryCode=US&IsRedirect=false

Momentum Webcast: Enterprise Content Management and Workflows in SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 100) (Bob Clancy)

21st May 2008

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/Register.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032378827&CountryCode=US&IsRedirect=false

MSDN Webcast: Introduction to SharePoint for .NET Developers: Web Parts (Level 100) (Robert L. Bogue, Thor Projects LLC)

20th May 2008

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/Register.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032377097&CountryCode=US&IsRedirect=false

TechNet Webcast: Forefront Security for SharePoint Content Filtering Drill-Down (Level 300) (Noelle Mendez-Villamil)

19th May 2008

http://tinyurl.com/6a3vrr

Momentum Webcast: The Enterprise Search Platform in SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 100) (Justin Chandoo)

15th May 2008

http://tinyurl.com/6ckxv3

TechNet Webcast: Securing SharePoint End-to-End with Microsoft Forefront (Level 300) (Noelle Mendez-Villamil, Senior Product Manager, Uri Lichtenfeld)

14th May 2008

IV WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1380

III.103 What do I need to do to get Kerberos to work when a SharePoint v3 product is installed on Windows Server 2008?

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V.120 Effective Knowledge Management with Microsoft SharePoint Content Types (Wrox Blox - Henry Ong) *released*

Modified

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=971

I.31.01 What issues are fixed in the hot fixes to WSS 3.0?

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1364

V.114 Seamless Teamwork: Using Microsoft SharePoint Technologies to Collaborate, Innovate, and Drive Business in New Ways (MS Press - Michael Sampson)

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X.122 SharePoint config store (free - codeplex, Chris O'Brien)

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V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;952903

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 hotfix package: May 12, 2008

20th May 2008

Modified

None

VI WSSv2 FAQ

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None

It was a really good idea to set up VMs for myself in the HP workstation and leave all the main OS and its apps to my wife.

Not only can she never again blame me for causing problems to *her* system by me adding codecs and odd apps (even though she mostly was right!) but I also get the chance to really experience virtualization as a full-time way of working rather than to use it only in addition to the host computer for the occasional test systems.

So far I have set up a VM with Vista and I've just completed setting up a VM with Windows Server 2008 (Full); Applications Server and (what else?!) WSS 3.0. I've even tried accessing that WSS 3.0 from the Vista VM and it works like a dream.

For now the only snag (and it's a minor one) is that I first need to boot my wife's XPPro before I can start VM Workstation and boot my Vista. I.e. it's a time problem. But oh, the joys of having only my own stuff there and everything where I left it.

If you have enough memory and a fast enough processor (and disk space) it's definately better than all other methods of dividing your machine (imo).

 

OK, "havoc" is a big word which isn't really justified.

I'm at present working through the Admin Studio Evaluation Guide (don't ask what this has to do with SharePoint [because the answer is "nothing at all"]!) which means I have installed the trial version of Admin Studio (a product that includes InstallShield) and which used to come from MacroVision (although I'm fairly sure it didn't start there) but now since the 1st of April comes from some other (new?) oddly-named company (begins with an "A" - accerta or something, nothing I've ever heard of). That change of ownership is so new that all the sites point to MacroVision pages and the documents still come from MacroVision.

All was going well. I set up (for a change) a VM using VM Fusion (roughly the Mac equivalent of VM Workstation) that had Windows 2003 Server installed and then installed the trial version of Admin Studio and was working through the examples in the Evaluation Guide.

I was about halfway through so I suspended the machine with Admin Studio open and at the page I was going to continue at this morning.

I restarted it this morning and started reading my e-mail on my work machine (I was using Admin Studio on my own Mac while waiting for a better work machine capable of running VM systems).

So, on the MacBook in that VM, the automatic upgrade of security fixes went into action and so I had to re-open my Admin Studio and find my place in the Evaluation Guide again.

Not too much of a problem you might think except that now there was a built-in "Start; wait a couple of seconds; delete" process going on caused it seemed later to be by DEP no longer liking that app.

So I tried getting rid of the two security fixes added today and re-booted. Now without me even trying to run Admin Studio, I was getting messages saying that Admin Studio wasn't being allowed to start !

I seem to have fixed it by re-running the Admin Studio installation; writing over the files but then saying Repair, but I've removed that Automatic Upgrades function (that I *never* use on my PCs so why did I set it in this VM?) and will try to remember to take at least a snapshot before adding any more security fixes to this VM. (I had of course taken a copy of the VM but that was before Admin Studio was installed with only the OS and security fixes [but not the yesterday ones!!].)

 

 

I knew that the HP workstation didn't come with a graphics card not even an imbedded (useless) one.

That made sense - if you pay that kind of money you are likely to want to pay several hundred dollars for a graphics card too so why (as Apple do with the MacPro) supply you with a good but not great graphics card that you might then throw out.

So that wasn't the negative.

Nor at the time did it seem that it not being supplied with a keyboard would be a problem as the usual junk ones just get dumped virtually immediately. (Although the same logic could apply to a mouse and they included one of those).

But as it happened this *was* a problem thanks to the very first (actually second) step in their long and almost automatic software installation routine.

Typically the problem was caused by the completely pointless "Are you Sure?" step !

What happens when you first switch on the machine (after installing the graphics card of course - which went smoothly enough, once I'd worked out how to take the "lid" off the slots at the side of the machine for the metal edge of the card to be able to fit it) is that it first (for this Nordic model) asks you to select which language version you want (use mouse to go down to English which isn't default which is very odd) and then the next screen is the infamous "are you sure" step.

To say that you are sure, you need to press F10. Now most keys (Enter say) would have given me no problem, but my keyboard is a Microsoft keyboard with Fingerprint reader where the F10 key has two uses (Search or something is the other one) and as of course the special driver for that keyboard hadn't been loaded so early in the procedure so although the keyboard basically worked, pressing F10 simply had no effect at all.

My alternative keyboard is a Microsoft wireless keyboard so that no doubt wouldn't even be recognized as a keyboard until much later in the startup process.

So within seconds of switching on the machine I was competely stuck and all because the HP setup guys had insisted on confirmation via a(n) F key.   (Yes the dual meaning WAS intentional!) 

I do have a simple keyboard but that is at work because it's better than the rubbish keyboard that came with the office portable. So I either had to go to work (20 mins drive away) or wait until the next day OR ring the next door neighbour's bell.

So that's what I did and luckily she was in and wasn't using her computer and could lend me her keyboard right away (a keyboard that I would hate to use normally but with single role F keys) and I could get past that man-made stumbling block and install the OS using the built-in routine.

Anyway that was one of the two temporary negatives.

The other was that this is the first computer that came without a power cord. Luckily I had a couple that I had saved in my computer storage location (=dump) but I remember thinking at the time that I hardly needed to keep them because if I buy a new computer it will come with one. Well this one didn't (and of course I needed to have both the old and the new computer on at the same time in order to see which software to install on the new one; which parameters etc. - I had dual video and ethernet cables handy of course).

So no keyboard; no power cord; no graphics card and actually no metal protector thing opposite the x16 slot that I was going to be using to install the graphics card into. No how much do they save by not including that ? 0.001 cents ??

Enough of that. On to the three permanent positives. All were unexpected.

The detailed documentation on the web made it clear that although there was a firewire outlet at the front of the machine, it was only active if a Firewire card (part number supplied) was installed in the first PCI slot and connected to this outlet.

The inference was that the card wasn't installed and you'd have to buy it and install it yourself. I only didn't order the card because I had a Firewire card somewhere in my store.

But, as you'll have guessed by now, that card was already installed so firewire worked both from the front (1) and the back (2).

The second thing that wasn't mentioned as being included was a multi media reader card. Again, HP had a suitable one and they included assembly instructions for it but again there was no mention of one being included as standard.

It was, and it also oddly included a single USB port - not that there was a shortage of them with several on the front already and a few more at the back.

So that's two of the permanent positives.

The third was that the box includes not just a sound card but also loudspeaker(s) so there is no longer any need for any speakers taking up useful space on the desk.

OK it's not stereo and the quality probably could be improved with some decent (desk) speakers, but it's sound that's not terrible to listen to and it works, so for now I'm moving my speakers (and woofer which is even bigger) off the desk and going for the Nordic uncluttered (sterile?) look. [At some time to be replaced no doubt by piles of SharePoint books]

As I wrote, the positives are permenant positives and the negatives very much short term, but why, oh why, did those HP guys insist on F10 being pressed before you could install the software? Do they all have those really awful standard HP keyboards I wouldn't be seen dead with (except that is when I'm looking for a(n) F key that works!)?

Well it's arrived and it's much more solid (and heavier) than the Fujitsu-Siemens virtually home user model it replaces.

More on how it opens when I've opened it. (I got it home at about 8:30 PM yesterday and I've learned by experience to add graphics cards and the like when I'm not already tired).

The information on it on the HP site looks pretty good although there a few pointless PDF files (Accessibility.pdf was a single paper which consisted of about two lines which said in effect "this workstation model follows standard accessibilty principles" or some such rubbish. I didn't actually bother to read it properly when I saw what roughly it was saying) and there's a later (?) driver to my graphics card just proving which it was a good idea to switch that to one that model of desktop officially supported. (There are other relevant drivers too)

But that wasn't the "interesting thing".

No the interesting thing is that the model I got is supplied with Vista Business DVDs BUT H-P have actually installed XPPro on it.

Yes, it's one of the "pay for a Vista license and then use that license to be allowed to install XPPro" models that I've read about earlier than HP and Dell both have "in response to customer demand".

Hence the Vista DVDs (Nordic languages + English) as that's what you've paid for. But when you on startup create a Recovery disk, it's going to be a recovery disk of XPPro. Probably I'd guess with SP2 although SP3 shouldn't (as this isn't an AMD processor) cause Blue Screens at least.

As I already have a portable running Vista Ultimate and as this is anyway my wife's PC (and this time I'll be putting my assorted junk in a VM to keep it away from messing with her applications in any way), it's probably a good idea to leave it at XPPro anyway.

The only real question is Office 2007 or Office 2003 ?

For the book I wrote it was very useful to have Office 2007 on one machine and Office 2003 on another so if Office 2007 gets put on this one I have a good argument for keeping the old one ...

(Actually not so good once the "VM for my junk" idea gets known)

P.S. My wife decided on Office 2007. (Her main argument for that seemed to be the fact that we had O'Reilly "Missing Manuals" for all the Office 2007 products). So now I'm going to have to set up a VM with Office 2003 for test purposes. I suppose it will be logical to have that as XPPro-based....